Diversity of rotavirus strains circulating in West Africa from 1996 to 2000

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 202, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Armah, George E ^a   Steele, A D ^b,c   Esona, M D ^b   Akran, V A ^d   Nimzing, L ^e   Pennap, G ^f  

^a University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^c PATH   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

^f Global River Blindness Programme   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; ROTAVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77955680760     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653571     Document Type: Article

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